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The latest incarnation of this story now has the 4 Bangladeshi cullers testing negative.
Kuwait says four Bangladeshis clear of bird flu
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Four Bangladeshi workers who had initially tested positive for bird flu in Kuwait have been cleared of the disease after further tests, the Kuwaiti health minister said on Thursday.
"We are happy to declare that the results of the tests ... in the referenced laboratory in Egypt have been negative," minister of health Maasouma al-Mubarak told reporters after the latest tests by the World Health Organisation.
On Wednesday, the four workers who had been culling infected chickens in Kuwait were tested positive in preliminary tests, but the ministry of health sent specimens to the WHO reference laboratory in Egypt for confirmation.
They would have been the first cases of bird flu affecting humans in Arab nations of the Gulf, had the cases been confirmed.
The four workers were admitted to Kuwait's infectious diseases hospital with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday. The men have been isolated in a special ward and were still at the hospital on Wednesday.
